.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 363 214
Rank change year-on-year +123 -149 -62
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 773 308 897
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.77% 0.71% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.24% 4.03% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 714 279 676
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,676 7,639 14,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.61% 17.70% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,826 5,045 9,616
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +97 196 £55,000 -4.35% 79
North of England +32 182 £55,000 -8.33% 90
East of England +68 115 £60,000 +20.00% 34
Midlands +54 102 £55,000 -8.33% 44
London -95 99 £80,000 +3.23% 167
South West -25 76 £52,500 +2.44% 18
North East -1 75 £65,000 +30.00% 22
North West +4 70 £55,000 -8.33% 47
West Midlands +7 59 £55,000 -8.33% 30
East Midlands +7 43 £50,000 -16.67% 14
Yorkshire -13 37 £47,500 -20.83% 22
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.81%) IIS
3 7 (0.91%) CMS
3 7 (0.91%) Confluence
4 6 (0.78%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.52%) Kentico
5 4 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.39%) DNN
6 3 (0.39%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.39%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.39%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 633 (81.89%) Azure
2 219 (28.33%) Azure DevOps
3 150 (19.40%) GitHub
4 132 (17.08%) GitHub Copilot
5 131 (16.95%) AWS
6 130 (16.82%) Azure AI
7 76 (9.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 42 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 41 (5.30%) Power Platform
10 32 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
10 32 (4.14%) Power Automate
11 28 (3.62%) PowerApps
12 26 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (2.98%) Azure Key Vault
14 21 (2.72%) SaaS
15 19 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (2.46%) Serverless
16 17 (2.20%) Google Play
17 16 (2.07%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 16 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.82%) Internet
2 6 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (55.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 360 (46.57%) MongoDB
3 151 (19.53%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (19.15%) SQL Server
5 33 (4.27%) Power BI
6 27 (3.49%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.59%) MySQL
8 17 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.68%) Redis
10 11 (1.42%) NonStop SQL
10 11 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.16%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (0.91%) GIS
14 4 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.39%) ZAP BI
16 1 (0.13%) HBase
16 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 73 (9.44%) Git
2 15 (1.94%) JIRA
3 14 (1.81%) NUnit
4 11 (1.42%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.29%) GitLab
6 7 (0.91%) MSI
7 6 (0.78%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.65%) Postman
8 5 (0.65%) Snyk
9 3 (0.39%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.39%) JUnit
9 3 (0.39%) Selenium
9 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 114 (14.75%) Finance
2 83 (10.74%) Social Skills
3 54 (6.99%) Advertising
4 42 (5.43%) Games
5 38 (4.92%) Marketing
6 33 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (4.14%) Retail
8 24 (3.10%) Public Sector
9 20 (2.59%) Law
10 15 (1.94%) Banking
11 14 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.42%) Legal
12 11 (1.42%) Music Industry
13 8 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.91%) Automotive
15 5 (0.65%) Front Office
15 5 (0.65%) Local Government
15 5 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 657 (84.99%) Developer
2 526 (68.05%) .NET Developer
3 105 (13.58%) Senior
4 83 (10.74%) Software Developer
5 75 (9.70%) Senior Developer
6 62 (8.02%) C# Developer
7 53 (6.86%) Lead
8 47 (6.08%) C# .NET Developer
9 43 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
10 34 (4.40%) Lead Developer
11 32 (4.14%) Software Engineer
12 28 (3.62%) .NET Software Developer
12 28 (3.62%) Senior C# Developer
13 27 (3.49%) Senior .NET Developer
14 23 (2.98%) Senior Software Developer
15 19 (2.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.33%) C# Software Developer
16 18 (2.33%) Lead .NET Developer
17 17 (2.20%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 17 (2.20%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (100.00%) .NET
2 507 (65.59%) ASP.NET
3 438 (56.66%) ASP.NET Core
4 237 (30.66%) CSS
5 235 (30.40%) HTML
6 222 (28.72%) Entity Framework
7 210 (27.17%) Blazor
8 205 (26.52%) React
9 192 (24.84%) AngularJS
10 183 (23.67%) RESTful
11 169 (21.86%) Vue
12 168 (21.73%) ASP.NET Web API
13 151 (19.53%) Node.js
14 145 (18.76%) .NET Framework
15 127 (16.43%) ML.NET
16 107 (13.84%) LINQ
17 72 (9.31%) REST
18 49 (6.34%) JSON
19 34 (4.40%) WPF
20 28 (3.62%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.13%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (8.15%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.46%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.20%) iPhone
8 16 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.55%) Sports Betting
11 11 (1.42%) BBC
11 11 (1.42%) Social Media
12 10 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.29%) Social Network
13 9 (1.16%) Hedge funds
13 9 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (0.91%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.36%) Windows
2 17 (2.20%) Android
3 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.39%) Linux
5 2 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (65.98%) Full-Stack Development
2 403 (52.13%) Agile
3 267 (34.54%) CI/CD
4 261 (33.76%) DevOps
5 210 (27.17%) Microservices
6 164 (21.22%) AI
7 144 (18.63%) Machine Learning
8 140 (18.11%) Multithreading
9 103 (13.32%) Scrum
10 90 (11.64%) Software Engineering
11 84 (10.87%) OO
12 82 (10.61%) TDD
13 66 (8.54%) BDD
14 62 (8.02%) Kanban
15 57 (7.37%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 56 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
17 55 (7.12%) User Experience
18 54 (6.99%) Mentoring
19 46 (5.95%) MVC
20 45 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 719 (93.01%) C#
2 505 (65.33%) SQL
3 264 (34.15%) JavaScript
4 204 (26.39%) TypeScript
5 27 (3.49%) Python
6 25 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.81%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.55%) Java
9 10 (1.29%) VBA
10 9 (1.16%) Bicep
11 5 (0.65%) Bash
12 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.52%) Ruby
12 4 (0.52%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.39%) Go
13 3 (0.39%) VBScript
14 2 (0.26%) C
14 2 (0.26%) Dart
15 1 (0.13%) Delphi
15 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (8.02%) Degree
2 28 (3.62%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.62%) Security Cleared
3 22 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.39%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.39%) OCP
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.88%) QA
2 25 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.91%) NCSC
3 7 (0.91%) WCAG
4 4 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.39%) GDPR
5 3 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.13%) Basel III
6 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.13%) ITGC
6 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 185 (23.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 169 (21.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.39%) Ansible
2 3 (0.39%) Grafana
2 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 507 (65.59%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.60%) Facebook
3 45 (5.82%) Google
4 21 (2.72%) YouTube
5 16 (2.07%) Adobe
6 11 (1.42%) Apple
6 11 (1.42%) Sony
6 11 (1.42%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.52%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.52%) Splunk
8 4 (0.52%) Workday
9 3 (0.39%) Alterian
9 3 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.39%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.26%) IFS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle
10 2 (0.26%) Sage
10 2 (0.26%) Veracode